Category: G.I.Joe

Welcome to the Outpost. Today I’m taking a look at a G.I. Joe figure from 1988 who I think gets a bad wrap from his name. When I see Skidmark I think back to my childhood when we would ride our bikes really fast and see who could make the longest skid on my dirt driveway. Later we would see who could do it on the paved road with a car, which my father was not a fan of and probably made us pay for new tires so we wouldn’t…

Welcome to the Outpost. 1994 was the year I graduated and went off to college. G.I. Joe was well into my rear view mirror so far I couldn’t see it any longer. Obviously I had not forgotten it, but it was in the past. It was actually not even a Joe that got me collecting again, it was a Han Solo figure I found at a flea market in Vermont for 1 dollar. It was the best and worse dollar I ever spent. 1994 was going to be the end…

Welcome to the Outpost. 1993, what can I say about this year? G.I. Joes didn’t really look like a military line anymore. There were a bunch of mail away figures, Street Fighter, Ninja Force, Star Brigade, and very bright Mega Marines. Desert Storm was fresh in the minds of Americans and Hasbro did not jump on making the characters in desert garb. They went a different direction and seemed to try and separate from the military. This is an interesting line though. I like a lot of the figures like…